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B. B. STEWART. PORTABLE HITGHING POST.

No. 460,094. Patented Sept 22, 1891.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

REVERDY B. STEWART, OF \VARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- EIGHTH TOGEORGE E. COLVIN, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE HlTCHlNG-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,094, datedSeptember 22, 1891.

Application filed August 21, 1890. Serial No. 362,672. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REVERDY B. STEWART, a citizen of the United States,residing at Varren, in the county of lVarren and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Portable l-Iitching-Posts,of which the following is a specification,

This invention has for its object to improve the compound tool describedand shown in IQ Letters Patent No. 418,541, issued to me De cember 31,1889.

To such end my present invention consists in a compound implementadapted to serve as a portable hitching-post and composed of a handleand a head having a shank formed into a head which is beveled at eachside into a knife-edge and provided at the extremities of the knife edgewith approximately V- shaped laterally-projecting edges for enabling theshank to be forcedinto an object and then turned axially for causingtheapproximately V-shaped edges to interlock with the object.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved portable hitching-post andcompound tool. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the tool-head. Fig. 3 is aview showing the manner of using the implement as a hitching device.Fig. 4 represents a modification in the form of the portablehitching-post.

The reference-numeral 1 designates the handle of theimplement, which maybe made in any desired or convenient shape of wood or other suitablematerial. On one end of the handle 1 is securely mounted a metal head 2,which may have the ordinary shape of a hammer, wrench, hatchet, or othersimilar tool. One end of the head 2 is provided with a cylindrical shank3, formed integral with the head or separate therefrom, as preferred,and in the latter case secured to the head in any convenient andreliable manner, as described in my said former patent. The shank 3 may5 be conical in form, as shown in Fig. 1, or cylindrical and straight,as shown in Fig. at, and is formed at its extremity into a head, whichis beveled at each side 4 into a knife-edge 5 and has approximatelyV-shaped extremities to form opposite laterally-projecting edges 6,whereby the beveled sides forming the knifeedge 5 enable the head of theshank to be easily driven into a post, tree, pavement, or other object,and then by swinging the handle of the instrument in the arc of a circleto axially rotate or turn the shank the laterally-projecting V-shapededges 6 are caused to engage and interlock with the object for retainingthe instrument in place to serve asa hitching device. If theinstrumentis to be engaged with a wooden object, the cutting-edge 5 iscaused to penetrate the wood in line with the grain thereof, so thatwhen the instrument is swun in the arc of a circle to axially rotate theshank 3 the laterally-projecting V-shaped extremities are brought atright angles to the grain, by which means the instrument is firmly andsecurely engaged with the wood and fulfills all the conditions requiredfor a hitching-post.

WVhen used as a hitching-post in brick or stone pavement, the point ispressed firmly into a crevice of the pavement, and then by turning thehandle around just far enough to tighten the tool it will be found to besufficiently firm and tight to answer all purposes of ahitching-post. Toremove the implement it is turned back one-quarter around, more or less,until the sides 4: are in line with the wood-grain 0r crevice betweenthe bricks or stone, and then the device can be readily disengaged. Theapproximately V-shaped extremities are formed by the upper and lowerinclined surfaces 7 and 8, which extend, respectively, from the shank 3to the edge 6 and from the knife-edge 5 to such edge 6, as will bereadily understood by reference to Fig. 4. lVhile the implement remainsengaged with the object into which it has been forcibly driven ahitel'ling-strap or line can be looped around the head 2 between theobject and the stock or handle 1, as shown in Fig. 3, thus affordingaperfectly-seen re fastening for horses. Besides its use as a portablehitching-post the implement can be employed to advantage as a hammer orhatchet, an ice-pick, a screwdriver, a scraper or pick for removingstones, dirt, gravel, and other impacted substances from the foot of ahorse, and as a convenient appliance for many other purposes. Ifdesired, the head of the tool and its handle may be made integral of anysuitable material. The cost of manufacturing a shank having a headbeveled into a knife-edge and provided with approximately V-shapedextremities to form the opposite laterally-projecting edges 6 isconsiderably less than the expense involved in providing it with thescrew-thread described in my former abovenamed patent, While at the sametime the durability and efliciency of tbeimplement are increased.

What I claim is- A compound implement to serve as a portablehitching-post, consisting of a handle and a head having a shank formedinto a head beveled at each side into a knife-edge and provided at theextremities of the knife-edge with approximately V-shapedlaterally-projecting edges for enabling the shank to be forced into anobject and then turned axially for causing the said edges to interlockwith the object, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

REVERDY B. STEWART. Witnesses:

I. W. WORTHINGTON, E. D. FELLMAN.

